THE NEW YORKER the Grand Canal, runs around lTIOst of the room just below the ceiling. It was covered with several layers of cello- phane and I could only make out some dim, shadowy forms. "Mr. Hewitt wanted everything covered with cello- phane, even bureaus," Mrs. \Veisschadel told me, "but I talked him out of that." Behind the woodwork is strung a long series of light bulbs encircling the ceiling. They were installed by Peter Cooper Hewitt "\vhen he was a boy and, according to his brother Ed- ward, represent the first indirect light- inQ in New York. "Mother thought they were too expensive, except for parties," he told me. Cooper Hewitt started his career as an inventor in an old greenhouse, attached to the house, \Nhich hIs grandfather fixed up as a \\lorkshop for him. He later invented a gas-discharge lamp, which still bears his name and is much used for illumina- tion in factories, and many other de- vices. In one corner of the dining room stood a lamp consisting of a straight narwhal ivory tusk about ten feet high and a parchment shade looking like the top of an enormous toadstool. Erskine Hewitt designed the shade himself and there were several others, on similar tusks, elsewhere in the house. A num- ber of extra tusks were sold at the auc- tl 0 n. I took a look at the pantry, a biggish room with barred windows and a safe where the silver used to be stored, and noted that the room-bell signal hox still had compartments marked "Miss Sal- ly" and "Miss Nelly." (At Ringwood, V\' here there was no electric-bell system, Miss Sally used to call for her maid by blowing a coach horn which hung on her bed.) The list of telephone numbers near the sink included Union Club, Plumber, Butcher, and Mr. Green. On my way to the music room I went back through the green and red rooms, and Miss Harrison told me they were furnished in the styles of Louis XV and Louis XVI. This represented Miss Sally's taste, and her brothers used to tease her by telling her that since Louis Quincy was not related to the Boston Quincys, he shouldn't be allowed in the house. The shutters, both in the parlors and in the dining room, were closed and have been closed for some- thing like twenty years. The music room looks out on a large courtyard where the greenhouse used to be. The old stable, now bulging with firewood, is still there. It once housed the barouche in which Peter Cooper used to drive the mile down to Cooper Union the last twen ty-.fi ve years of his life. The 61 ,: : :: .:: ::.: '. / :.. ,./ tt.' -. ',.--' . -,:' ,i:. '-:f' 1'", , \ : íl J : . : , . : . _ , _ , ' . i . : . y _ -; '.f w ," rt q ....:.:.:.s .) . : 'j[ , 4.i!Ma "'!Ï" ''':1 > ',' .',' &}:: <em: r l' t''&t .,. " 'II' ...., ::- .,.- /' " j..c ø&' Q(' : .... , '" wl. i;i(: ,l w ;' , f"::,/ :.: L$.; i. ':::: .... ::::':.,:'$:' , "":.' 1 000....::.::.. "..0.11 .....n. r. l :,:,::, 1 n::: Æ -:::t::t::: ':-::: ::; i!':- .:f= ' ,...:. ...... :;: ::f .=::. .,.g =:::. :: ;t " it: f\ i{.;.,.::. :.:.:.'.', . :.:.;.'. :....;.::..>rt' :,.....;:..:.. w ::{.! 3t ../..... " RE J , , ,'\'- 0 · " Js.. + J 't. ..: .. ì .c c.. I I A.. fl' t" r " I 'f'" ... ,0 "-i L ()\)... , Copr., 1938, P. Ballantine & Sons, Newark, N. J. FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE THE NE. W YORKER, 25 WEST 4JRD STREET. NEW YORK CITY Subscribers order- ing a change of ad- dress are requested to notify us at least three \veeks prior to the date of the issue \vith \vhich it is to take effect. Gentlemen: Please enter my subscription to your magazine for 0 I YEAR-$5.00 0 2 YEA RS-$7.00. Canada, Foreign, year $5.50; 2 years $8.00; year $6.00; 2 years $9.00 NAME ADDRESS